Hello and welcome to Science Fiction University.

Hello and welcome to Science Fiction University.

In this episode, be seeing you. We look at a work of science fiction

that came out of nowhere and changed everything. We're your fan and writer-hosts. I'm Blue Gow.

And I'm Drift Glass, and you can visit Science Fiction University at our website,

science fictionuniversity.com, where you can also contribute to this podcast. There is a

Patreon button at our website, or you can mail also letter and our contribution care of

Science Fiction University, P.O. Box 9133, Springfield, Illinois, 62791. And we're going to start this

episode off a little unusually by reading an obituary, and we're

going to read it in the wrong order.

So how's that for mind-blowing?

This is the second paragraph of Patrick McGuwen's 2009 obituary, and it reads as follows.

Quote, McGowan was at the time,

1967,

the highest earning British TV star

paid 2,000 pounds a week

through appearing in a highly successful

secret agent series called Danger Man,

in which he was John Drake,

a European security man who,

on McGuwen's own insistence, never carried a gun or

seduced a woman, unquote. He was very Catholic, that McGowan. I understood he stayed married

...